Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America

Hour 1: What happens to children born into the poorest communities of America once they come of age? We’ll find out this hour with National Book Award-winner Jonathan Kozol, who has followed the issue first as a teacher and then as a writer – for nearly five decades. His new book is “Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America” (Crown, 2012).